Blocking ads in internet explorer A good way to block ads and unwanted sites in Internet Explorer without a third party applic ation
Contributed by:
ujjwald
[11/07/04 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]
The hosts file contains the mapping of IP addresses to host names. So by specifying the host name of an unwanted website as the local IP address, the browser looks for the file in your own computer, thus blocking the download.
PS - this is not an original hack of mine but cool nevertheless. Dunno if you have used it before.
See also:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
